[As Luke falls silent, Piety's shoulders sag. He wasn't sure when his hands had clenched into fists, but they slowly lose slack. For a moment, he just watches Luke's back, watches where he's staring at the horizon and the sample of a world far away. A place that Fortune had missed desperately enough to make it here.
He missed something that desperately, too, and there was only one reason that he hadn't embraced the sight of it.]
I know it's hard. It's easy to feel powerless in a situation like this...I'd be lying if I said that I never felt that way, myself, even now.
[Piety reaches up and pulls down the hood of his robes, shaking his hair free.]
There are so many times that I just want to shake the whole world...because there has to be, just has to be any other way. An easier way, a simple way that makes sense. Sometimes that's not how things work out. And I know...as much as you've put your trust in me, it seems as if I've been doing the opposite of what I can to earn it.
[Untying the mask from behind his head, he pulls it off and lets it fall into the sand.]
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He missed something that desperately, too, and there was only one reason that he hadn't embraced the sight of it.]
I know it's hard. It's easy to feel powerless in a situation like this...I'd be lying if I said that I never felt that way, myself, even now.
[Piety reaches up and pulls down the hood of his robes, shaking his hair free.]
There are so many times that I just want to shake the whole world...because there has to be, just has to be any other way. An easier way, a simple way that makes sense. Sometimes that's not how things work out. And I know...as much as you've put your trust in me, it seems as if I've been doing the opposite of what I can to earn it.
[Untying the mask from behind his head, he pulls it off and lets it fall into the sand.]
But I'm here, and I am fighting.